In developing a new identity and rebuilding her life in a new country, Mahnaz derived strength from the international women’s movement and rebuilt her ties to the network that had supported and sustained her work at home. She joined the advisory board of the women’s division of Human Rights Watch, the first of several human…
Category: Global Women’s Movement
Birth of Women’s Learning Partnership
When her term at SIGI was completed in 2000, supported by colleagues and friends, Mahnaz founded a new organization– Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP). WLP’s mission is to help empower women in the Global South, especially Muslim majority countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, as well as…
Work of a Lifetime
One of Mahnaz’s major preoccupations has been to help women from her own country and elsewhere in the developing world to seek and find refuge when necessary, to build new lives, and form sustainable women’s organizations to help themselves and others. Her support has enabled many activists to create or expand women’s human rights organizations…